States With Highest Paid CEOs Ranked In New Analysis (PHOTOS)

CEOs looking to be compensated as generously as possible, should pack their bags and head to Delaware, according to an analysis by BizJournals.

The site used data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to rank CEO-friendly states in a number of ways, including average annual compensation. The statistics come from data collected in May 2011 by the BLS.

See the top ten states for CEO pay in the slideshow below, and also checkout Forbes' list of the top paid CEOs.

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Comments

[tuttle101]

04:12 AM on 04/19/2012

And if you add up the Forbes top 100 you get almost $750 billion, which equals 75 million people making $10,000. It’s time to look at the inequality and Do The Math: http://www.amazon.com/Do-Math-Growth-Strategic-Thinking/dp/1412999596

[oldwolf49]

01:29 AM on 04/19/2012

I don't think it matters where they are (even blue states) it's the fact that they are there and the slide show ONLY gives averages not actuals..

[UKLLee]

12:30 AM on 04/19/2012

ROFL! All except for one are blue states!

[planman]

01:33 AM on 04/19/2012

Actually, every one of those states voted Democratic in the last election. But that's not really funny. It's indicative of the fact that some the poorest and most uneducated populations are in states that typically vote Republican. That's tragic, because it means people are basically being tricked into voting against their own interests by perceived wedge issues like same-sex marriage. And the issue is not just the average CEO salary, it goes far beyond that--Americans are going to have to decide what we value and how we want to allocate our resources. Every tax break or funded program is a CHOICE of how we allocate resources. I, for one, don't want CEOs, corporate board members, Wall Street execs and other leeches on our collective resources sucking the life blood out of the country so they can live extravagant lifestyles.

[jeremylh1]

01:59 AM on 04/19/2012

No doubt, no red southern teabagger states. They're poor and welfare states - us blue states actually subsidize them.

[SportyJim]

06:07 AM on 04/19/2012

Isn't that what Dems want to do? Obviously those blue states are too successful and corrupt if they can afford to pay CEO's so much. Looks like they need to tax those blue state "citizen's" MORE and redistribute MORE wealth to the red states right?

[Jerry Frey]

11:49 PM on 04/18/2012

Back in the early 1990s, Kevin Phillips examined the angst of the middle class in his work Boiling Point. Phillips described the decline of the middle class which began during the Reagan and George Bush administrations. From the February 1, 1993 New York Times review:

"In the years of the Reagan and Bush Presidencies, the middle classes of America declined precipitately. No group has been hurt more by rising taxes, declining real income, escalating expenses, a shrinking job market, deteriorating public services, falling home values, growing health costs, weakening safety nets, the loss of savings and the threat of collapsing pension and insurance funds."

http://napoleonlive.info/economics/kevin-phillips-predicts-future/